Nüwa Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
In Chinese mythology, Nüwa (女娲 Pinyin: nǚwā) is the mother goddess who created humankind, although other traditions would attribute this feat to either Pangu or Yu Huang.She and her husband Fu Xi, the first of the San Huang are often called the "parents of humankind", as in one myth they were said to be ancestors of humankind. With Fu Xi she is often depicted with the upper body of a woman and the lower body of a snake or dragon as it was in the form of dragons that she and her husband carved out the rivers of the world and drained the floods.
She is charged with the upkeep and maintenance of the Wall of Heaven, whose collapse would obliterate everything.
It is said that Nüwa existed in the beginning of the world. She felt lonely as there were no animals so she began the creation of animals and humans. On the first day she created chickens. On the second day she created dogs. On the third day she created sheep. On the forth day she created pigs. On the fifth day she created cow. On the sixth day she created horse. On the seventh day she began creating men from yellow clay, sculpting each one individually, yet after she had created hundreds of figures in this way she still had more to make but had grown tired of the laborious process. So instead of hand crafting each figure she dipped a rope in clay and flicked it so blobs of clay landed everywhere each of these blobs became a person. In this way, the story relates were nobles and commoners created from the hand crafted figures and the blobs respectively. Another variation on this story relates that some of the figures melted in the rain as Nüwa was waiting for them to dry and in this way sickness and physical abnormalities came into existence.
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The Upkeep and Maintainence of Heaven
When the water god Gong Gong smashed his head against Mount Buzhou (不周山), a pillar holding up the sky. The pillar suffered great damage and caused the sky to tilt towards the northwest and the earth to shift to the southeast. This caused great floods and suffering to the people. Nüwa(女媧) cut off the legs of a giant tortoise and used them to supplant the fallen pillar and alleviate the situation and seals the broken sky using stones of seven different colours , but she was unable to fully correct the tilted sky. This explains the phenomenon that sun, moon, and stars move towards the northwest, and that rivers in China flow southeast into the Pacific Ocean.